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  • A. Carl Roger
  • B. Abraham Mashlow
  • C. Sigmund Freud
  • D. William James

Explanation: Abraham Maslow proposed self-actualisation as the highest level in his hierarchy of needs.

Correct answer: Abraham Mashlow
  • A. Willhelm Wundt
  • B. Charles Darwin
  • C. Sigmund Freud
  • D. William James

Explanation: Sigmund Freud founded psychodynamic theory by explaining behaviour through unconscious motives, conflicts, and early experiences.

Correct answer: Sigmund Freud
  • A. Developmental approach
  • B. Biological approach
  • C. Humanistic approach
  • D. Socio-cultural approach

Explanation: Maslow and Carl Rogers founded the humanistic approach, which emphasizes personal growth, free choice and the search for meaning.

Correct answer: Humanistic approach
  • A. Adler
  • B. Jung
  • C. Anne Freud
  • D. None of theseGet Study Guides

Explanation: Alfred Adler established Individual Psychology, which stresses inferiority feelings, striving for superiority and the social context of…

Correct answer: Adler
  • A. Dynamic and Psychoanalytic Approach
  • B. Cognitive Approach
  • C. Holistic Approach
  • D. Stimulus-Response Behaviouristic Approach

Explanation: The dynamic and psychoanalytic approach emphasizes instinctual drives and how they are modified through interaction with society and…

Correct answer: Dynamic and Psychoanalytic Approach
  • A. Carl Jung
  • B. Freud
  • C. Adler
  • D. Skinner

Explanation: Jung used archetypes to describe universal symbolic patterns in the collective unconscious, such as the mother, hero, and shadow.

Correct answer: Carl Jung
  • A. Sigmund Freud
  • B. Tolman
  • C. Alfred Adler
  • D. William James

Explanation: Sigmund Freud founded psychoanalysis, a tradition centred on unconscious motives, early experiences, and techniques such as free…

Correct answer: Sigmund Freud
  • A. David Hull
  • B. Thorndike
  • C. Alfred Binet
  • D. Alfred Adler

Explanation: Alfred Adler founded Individual Psychology, which emphasises striving for significance, feelings of inferiority, lifestyle, and social…

Correct answer: Alfred Adler
  • A. J. B. Watson
  • B. E.B Titchener
  • C. C.G. Jung
  • D. Alfred Adler
  • E. Sigmund Freud

Explanation: Sigmund Freud founded psychoanalysis and made unconscious motives, conflict, and early experiences central to the explanation of…

Correct answer: Sigmund Freud